here are the set of steps that I took... % sudo kcontrol ...navigate to Appearance - Icons ...removed Crystal SVG Beta ...installed Crystal SVG 1.0 ...clicked Apply ...all icons vanish. ...tried changing to another set of icons ...still nothing. ...right clicked on an application launcher in the taskbar ...clicked Properties ...tried changing the icon (which is an empty gray box) ...KDE Crash Handler displays This backtrace appears to be useless. This is probably because your packages are built in a way which prevents creating of proper backtraces, or the stack frame was seriously corrupted in the crash. (no debugging symbols found)...Using host libthread_db library "/lib/tls/libthread_db.so.1". (no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)...[Thread debugging using libthread_db enabled] [New Thread -1085077792 (LWP 4771)] (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... (no debugging symbols found)...(no debugging symbols found)... 0x00454c32 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #0 0x00454c32 in _dl_sysinfo_int80 () from /lib/ld-linux.so.2 #1 0x00700b03 in __waitpid_nocancel () from /lib/tls/libpthread.so.0 #2 0x00b7d704 in KCrash::defaultCrashHandler(int) () from /usr/lib/libkdecore.so.4 Any help is appreciated. I can survive without icons but waiting for each tool tip to pop up is a bit of a pain. Thanks! -Tim ___________________________________________________ . Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.